Vibration and Mechanical Testing
Onsite capabilities and equipment for mechanical testing of products and components of varied sizes, weights and testing profiles. We can evaluate your products and design for Vibration, Mechanical Shock & Impact, Load & Fatigue, Strain & Stress, and Seismic impacts.
DATASYST conducts on-time, quality vibration and mechanical testing on products and components of various sizes, weights and testing profiles. Covering industries such as medical, automotive, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical and military.
Decades of experience combined with a wide range of capabilities and equipment allow us to offer a diverse portfolio of vibration and mechanical testing services to simulate daily use environments.
Determining where, when and how a unit under test (UUT) or product responds to real-world conditions provides you with the advantage of determining the effectiveness of a given design and its ability to tolerate its intended environment.
What is Vibration Testing?
Have you ever wondered how the vibration forces generated by engines, machinery, roadways, rail systems, aircraft, ships, or even seismic activity impact the performance and reliability of surrounding components? How does an oil pump continue to function while subjected to engine vibration and rough terrain? How can we be confident that an electrical cabinet and its internal components will remain intact while being transported across the country? How do all of the components within a generator continue to operate together throughout its service life?
These are the questions vibration testing is designed to answer.
As products become more complex and material selections continue to evolve, the interactions between components become increasingly important. A component’s performance depends not only on its design, but also on how it responds to the environment in which it operates. Consider the difference between a solenoid mounted directly to a 7,000 RPM engine and an MRI machine being shipped across oceans and highways. While both experience vibration, the vibration profiles are dramatically different.
Vibration testing recreates real-world operating and transportation environments in a controlled laboratory setting. By exposing products and components to representative vibration levels, engineers can evaluate durability, identify potential failure modes, and improve product reliability before issues are discovered in the field.
At DATASYST, we specialize in developing vibration test programs that accurately represent your product’s intended environment. Whether testing to industry standards such as IEC, MIL-STD, ISO, ASTM, or customer-specific requirements, our team can assist with test planning, fixturing design, instrumentation, data collection, and result interpretation. Our goal is to help you understand how your product will perform under real-world vibration exposure and identify potential weaknesses before they become costly failures.
Common Failures Revealed During Vibration Testing
Vibration testing frequently uncovers issues that may not be apparent during normal inspection, including:
- Loose electrical connections and wiring
- Cracked or failed welds
- Fastener loosening
- Bracket and mounting failures
- Connector disengagement
- Material fatigue and cracking
- Premature bearing wear
- Resonance-related failures
- Solder joint cracking
- Component-to-component interference
By identifying these issues early in the design process, vibration testing can help improve product reliability, reduce warranty costs, and increase customer confidence.
Sine Vibration
Random Vibration
Sine-on-Random
Single Frequency at a Time
Broadband Frequencies Simultaneously
Single Frequency + Broadband Frequencies
Best for Finding Resonances
Best for Real-World Simulation
Best for Engine-Driven Systems
Structural Response Analysis
Fatigue and Durability Testing
Combined Environment Testing
Frequency Sweeps
PSD Profiles
PSD + Sine Tone
A product may survive a single load event but fail after thousands or millions of repeated cycles. Load and fatigue testing evaluates how products and components withstand the forces they will encounter throughout their service life. This testing can reveal weaknesses such as material fatigue, cracking, deformation, and premature wear that may not be apparent during initial inspection. DATASYST helps manufacturers validate product durability and improve confidence in long-term performance.
Products are exposed to far more than clean laboratory conditions. Rain, dust, dirt, splashing water, washdowns, and harsh outdoor environments can all challenge the integrity of an enclosure. Ingress Protection (IP) testing evaluates how effectively a product prevents dust and water from entering areas that could impact performance or safety. DATASYST performs IP testing to help manufacturers identify potential weaknesses and validate product performance in real-world environments.fe.
Sooner or later, nearly every product gets dropped. Whether by a shipping carrier, installer, technician, or end user, impacts are an unavoidable part of a product’s life cycle. Drop testing helps manufacturers understand how products and packaging respond to these events so they can improve designs, reduce warranty costs, and increase customer confidence. With capabilities ranging from a Lansmont 72″ actuated drop system to a 35-foot drop tower and a 24-foot crane with a 15-ton capacity, DATASYST can evaluate products from small electronics to large industrial equipment.
Products rarely experience a single environmental condition in the real world. A component may be subjected to vibration while operating in extreme temperatures, humidity while under mechanical load, or thermal cycling while exposed to shock and vibration. Combined environmental testing recreates these simultaneous conditions in a controlled laboratory environment, providing a more realistic assessment of product performance and reliability.
By exposing products to multiple stresses at the same time, manufacturers can identify failure modes that may not appear during individual environmental tests. DATASYST can combine vibration, temperature, and humidity conditions to evaluate how products perform in their intended operating environments and verify product robustness before deployment.
Vibration and Mechanical
Testing Available
Discover how your product performs in its intended, real-world conditions.
Subject components to both mechanical and environmental real-world conditions.
Expose components various degrees of water and dust severities it will endure in its intended environement.